I was running a fairly old version of the kernel:
Linux server 3.0.0-16-generic #28-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jan 27 17:44:39 UTC
2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 5:44 PM, Chris Mason <chris.ma...@oracle.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 05:11:24PM -0600, Travis Shivers wrote:
>> Thank you all for helping. My btrfs array consists of 4 disks: 2 (2
>> TB) disks and 2(500 GB) disks. Since I have disks of different sizes,
>> I have the array being mirrored so that there are two copies of a file
>> on two separate disks. The data and metadata are mirrored.
>>
>> I originally made the array by using this command:
>>
>> # mkfs.btrfs -m raid1 -d raid1 /dev/sd[abcd]
>> (The drives were originally those letters)
>>
>>
>> All of the disks sit in an external 4 bay ESATA enclosure going into a
>> PCI-E RAID card set up as JBOD, so I can use btrfs' software
>> mirroring. This is the enclosure that I have:
>> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816132029
>>
>> The corruption was unexpected. I am not entirely sure what caused it,
>> but a few days before the corruption, there were several power
>> outages. I do not think that the problem is with the actual hard drive
>> hardware since they are fairly new (6 months old) and they pass all
>> SMART tests. After a reboot, the btrfs array refused to mount and
>> started giving off errors. I do weekly scrubs, balances, and
>> defragmentation.
>
> Ok, all of this should have worked.  Which kernel were you running when
> you had the power outages?
>
> I'm testing out the patch to skip the extent allocation tree at mount.
> That will be the easiest way to get to the data (readonly, but it'll
> work).
>
> -chris
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